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Aedes Apollinis Palatini
Aedes Apollinis Palatini, the Temple of Apollo Palatinus, Augustus' marble temple on the southwest Palatine in Rome, vowed 36 BC, dedicated 9 October 28 BC, with Greek and Latin libraries and the Sibylline books.
Aedes Ceres Liber Liberaque
Aedes Ceres Liber Liberaque (aedes Cereris), a Roman temple on the Aventine near the Circus Maximus dedicated in 493 BCE to Ceres, Liber, and Libera; headquarters of the plebeian aediles, destroyed by fire in 31 BCE and rededicated by Tiberius after A.D. 17.
Aedes Fauni
Aedes Fauni, the Temple of Faunus (aedes Fauni), was Rome's only known temple of Faunus, on the Tiber Island; vowed 196 BC by Domitius Ahenobarbus and Scribonius Curio, dedicated on the Ides of February, cited by Vitruvius as prostyle.
Aedes Hercules Musarum
Aedes Hercules Musarum (aedes Herculis Musarum), Temple of Hercules of the Muses in Rome's Circus Flaminius, built by M. Fulvius Nobilior after Ambracia (189 BC); housed looted Muses, his Fasti, restored by Philippus in 29 BC.
Aedes Herculis Pompeiani
Aedes Herculis Pompeiani: a temple of Hercules near the Circus Maximus in Rome, built or restored by Pompey the Great, Tuscan in style, housing a bronze Hercules by Myron, dedicated 12 August.
Aedes Salus
Aedes Salus, the Temple of Salus on Rome's Quirinal Hill (collis Salutaris), vowed by C. Iunius Bubulcus Brutus and dedicated 302 BC; famous for Fabius Pictor's frescoes, destroyed under Claudius.
Aedes Serapis
Aedes Serapis: the colossal temple of the Greco-Egyptian god Serapis on Rome's Quirinal Hill, catalogued as templum Salutis et Serapis; traditionally attributed to Caracalla, reassigned by Taylor (2004) to Hadrian and Antoninus Pius.
Aedes Tensarum
Aedes Tensarum (Tensarium Vetus), a small Roman temple on the Capitoline Hill storing the tensae, sacred chariots carrying the gods' exuviae in processions; attested by military diplomas of 60 and 84 AD.
Aedesius
Aedesius, also known as Edesius, was a fourth-century Tyrian who, with Frumentius, was carried to the Aksumite court, served as cup-bearer, and later returned to Tyre as a priest.
AEE Technology
AEE Technology is a Chinese manufacturer founded in 1996 and headquartered in Shenzhen that builds professional UAV systems, including the Mach 6 hexacopter, and body cameras.
AEG (power tool brand)
AEG Powertools is an international brand of professional power tools sold by Techtronic Industries under license from Electrolux, tracing its lineage to AEG's 1898 portable electric drill.
Aegaeo Rupes
Aegaeo Rupes is a 222 km escarpment (rupes) on Mercury at 9.19°S, 15.28°W, in quadrangle H-06. IAU-approved December 2, 2022, it is named after the Greek research vessel RV Aegaeo and is a lobate scarp formed by Mercury's global contraction.
Aegan
Aegan (ஏகன்) is a 2008 Tamil action comedy film, Raju Sundaram's directorial debut, starring Ajith Kumar and Nayanthara; released Diwali 2008 by Ayngaran International, music by Yuvan Shankar Raja, reviews average. Also the name of a Tamil actor starring in Haiku (2026).
Aegean Airlines
Aegean Airlines is a Greek airline headquartered in Athens and, together with its subsidiary Olympic Air, Greece's largest carrier. It joined Star Alliance in June 2010.
Aegean dispute
Aegean dispute: long-running Greece-Turkey conflict over the Aegean Sea's continental shelf, EEZ, territorial waters, airspace, island demilitarization, and islet sovereignty, marked by the 1976 ICJ case, 1987 and 1996 crises, and the 2023 Athens Declaration.
Aegean Drainages
Aegean Drainages (FEOW ecoregion 424) is a temperate coastal-river freshwater ecoregion of southeastern Greece and Aegean islands, defined by Abell et al. 2008, with main rivers Spercheios, Asopos, and Boeotic Kifissos and disputed boundaries.
Aegean Islands
Aegean Islands: Greek archipelago in the Aegean Sea between mainland Greece, Asia Minor, and Crete; largest island complex in Europe, including Cyclades and Dodecanese, volcanic arc with Santorini, tourism-driven economy.
Aegean Sea (Αιγαίο Πέλαγος)
The Aegean Sea (Greek Αιγαίο Πέλαγος, Turkish Ege Denizi) is an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Asia Minor, dotted with Greek islands and the cradle of early Greek civilization.
Aegidius of Viterbo
Aegidius of Viterbo (Egidio da Viterbo, 1469–1532) was an Italian Augustinian friar, cardinal, theologian, and Hebraist who served as prior general and opened the Fifth Lateran Council in 1512.
Aegilops
Aegilops (goatgrass) is a genus of about 22-23 annual grasses in Poaceae, tribe Triticeae, native from Macaronesia and the Mediterranean to western Himalaya and central China, and the wild relative that donated wheat's B, G, and D genomes.
Aegilops tauschii
Aegilops tauschii (goat grass, Tausch's goatgrass) is an annual Eurasian grass, diploid DD, that hybridized with tetraploid wheat about 8,000-11,000 years ago to create bread wheat's D genome and now serves as a breeding resource.
Aegina (Αίγινα)
Aegina (Αίγινα), Greek island in the Saronic Gulf near Piraeus, second largest of the Saronic islands, 82.63 km², Mount Oros 532 m; first capital of modern Greece, home of the Temple of Aphaia and PDO pistachio.
Aegis (αἰγίς)
Aegis (αἰγίς, aigis): the shield or goatskin protective garment of Zeus in Greek myth, made by Hephaestus, lent to Athena and Apollo, later Athena's snake-fringed, Gorgon-decorated breastplate; source of English "aegis" meaning protection.
Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System
The Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System (Aegis BMD) is the sea-based element of US missile defense, deployed on Navy cruisers and destroyers and using SM-3 and SM-6 interceptors.
Aegis Combat System
The Aegis Combat System, also known as the Aegis weapon system, is an integrated naval combat system first deployed by the US Navy in 1983 aboard USS Ticonderoga.
Aegis Pipeline System
The Aegis Pipeline System is a 270-mile, 20-inch ethane pipeline owned by Enterprise Products Partners, running from Mont Belvieu, Texas to Napoleonville, Louisiana and serving Gulf Coast petrochemical plants.
Ægishjálmur (occult symbol)
Ægishjálmur (ægishjálmr, Helm of Awe) is an Icelandic magical stave, not a Viking Age symbol: the name is 13th-century Old Norse (Fáfnismál), the drawn eight-armed figure first appears in grimoires such as Galdrakver (1670) and the Huld manuscript (1860).
Aegithalos
Aegithalos (エナガ属, 長尾山雀屬) is a genus of small long-tailed passerines in Aegithalidae, with 9 species including the long-tailed tit; known for domed feather-lined nests and cooperative breeding.
Aegle
Aegle is a monotypic genus of Rutaceae (Sapindales) whose single species, Aegle marmelos (bael, Bengal quince), is a spiny South Asian tree with hard-shelled aromatic fruit, sacred in Hinduism and used in Ayurveda.
Aegle family
Aegle family (FIN 630) is a small, dark, highly inclined asteroid family in the outer main belt at about 3.05 AU, named for asteroid 96 Aegle; members are CX-complex, likely T-/D-type, low-albedo asteroids.